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مرگ غمانگی� پسر صدفی: و داستانهای دیگر
کتاب مرگ غم انگیز پسر صدفی، مجموعه ای از اشعار فانتزی و طنزآمیز نوشته ی تیم برتون است که نخستین بار در سال 1997 چاپ شد. تیم برتون با خلق آثاری درخشان، از انیمیشن های نفسگیر گرفته تا قصه های پریان مدرن و پرطرفدار که همزمان هم خنده دار هستند و هم هراس انگیز، نبوغ منحصر به فرد خود را بارها و بارها به اثبات رسانده است. برتون حالا به گروهی از بچه هایی عجیب و غریب جان بخشیده که به خاطر ظاهر غیرمعمولشان، از جامعه طرد شده اند و نمی توانند در این دنیای بی رحم، احساس عشق و تعلق خاطر را تجربه کنند. تصویرگری های هنرمندانه و به یاد ماندنی او نیز، لذت دوچندانی به آشنایی با این موجودات تاریک اما ساده بخشیده است؛ موجوداتی که به قهرمانانی امیدوار اما نفرین شده می مانند که انگار نشان دهنده ی بخشی از وجود همه ی ما هستند و این فرصت را برای مخاطبین فراهم می آورند که به دنیایی که مدت ها پیش رهایش کرده اند، بخندند.
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First published January 1, 1997
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95books2,013followersTimothy "Tim" William Burton is a prolific American film director/writer, best known for the dark imagery and quirky nature of his popular films. He is also the author and illustrator of the poetry collection "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories."
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October 20, 2021
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, Timothy Walter Burton
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a 1997 poetry book written and illustrated by American film director Timothy Walter Burton.
The poems, which are full of black humor, tell stories of hybrid kids, spontaneous transformers, and women who have babies to win over men.
Some characters of the book would later appear in the Flash series Stainboy, which was created, directed, and written by Burton: Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love, Voodoo Girl, Robot Boy, Staring Girl, The Boy with Nails in His Eyes, The Girl with Many Eyes, Stain Boy, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, Stain Boy's Special Christmas, The Girl Who Turned into a Bed, Roy the Toxic Boy, James, Stick Boy's Festive Season, Brie Boy, Mummy Boy, Junk Girl, The Pin Cushion Queen, Melon head, Sue, Jimmy the Hideous Penguin Boy, Char Boy, Anchor Baby, Oyster Boy Steps Out.
عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «مرگ غم� انگیز پسر صدفی و قصه� های دیگر»؛ «مرگ وحشتناک پسرک صدفی و داستان‌ها� دیگر»؛ اثر: تیم برتون؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز پانزدهم ماه می سال 2009میلادی
عنوان: مرگ غم� انگیز پسر صدفی و قصه� های دیگر؛ اثر: تیم برتون؛ برگردان احسان نوروزی؛ مشخصات نشر تهران، حرفه� هنرمند، 1388، مشخصات ظاهری 127ص، مصور (بخشی رنگی)� 14×19س�.� شابک 9649694331؛ مجموعه داستانهای خیلی کوتاه با سوژه های عجیب معصومیت و وحشت از نویسندگان و کارگردانان ایالات متحده آمریکا؛ - سده 20م
با عنوان: مرگ وحشتناک پسرک صدفی و داستان‌ها� دیگر؛ در سال 1384هجری خورشیدی، توسط نشر زاوش، نیز منتشر شده است
مرگ غمانگی� پسر صدفی، و قصه‌ها� دیگر؛ عنوان کتاب شعر مصوری است، که توسط «تیم برتون (خالق فیلمهای بتمن)»، نگاشته و تصویرگری شد، و نخستین بار در سال 1997میلادی انتشار یافته است؛ کتاب پر از اشعاری با درون‌مای� ی کمدی سیاه است، و داستان موجودات عجیب و غریبی را بیان می‌کند� برخی از شخصیت‌ها� این کتاب، بعدها در مجموعه ی کوتاه انیمیشنی، به کارگردانی «تیم برتون» به کار گرفته شدند؛ «ادوارد دست قیچی»، «عروس مرده»، «کابوس قبل از کریسمس» و «ماهی بزرگ»، نمونه ای از بچه های هولناک، و دوست داشتنی در این کتاب هستند؛ مطرودین تنهایی که میکوشند عشق را بیابند، و به دنیاهای بیرحم ستمکاراشان وابستگی پیدا کنند؛ تصویرسازیهای دوست داشتنی «تیم برتون»، همزمان شادی و تراژدی این موجودات پر امید اما تیره بخت را هویدا و آشکار میسازند
مرگ غم انگیز پسر صدفی (قصه ای از تیم برتون)؛
در تپه های شنی خواستگاری کرد؛
در کنار دریا ازدواج کردند
ماه عسل نه روزه شان در جزیره ی کاپری بود.؛
برای شام غذای خاصی داشتند
خورشت جاافتاده ی نرمتنان با ماهی.؛
وقتی مرد آب خورش را مزه مزه میکرد؛
عروس خانم در دل آرزویی کرد.؛
آن آرزو برآورده شد - بچه به دنیا آمد
یک چنین چیز کوچکی آدمیزاد بود؟
خب، شاید.؛
ده تا انگشت دست، ده تا انگشت پا، دل و روده و قوه ی بینایی.؛
میتوانست بشنود، میتوانست حس کند؛
ولی آیا معمولی بود؟
نه چندان.؛
این تولد غیرطبیعی، این مصیبت، این آفت؛
غم اول و آخر این زن و شوهر بود.؛
زن به دکتر شکایت کرد: «این بچه نمیتونه مال من باشه؛
بوی اقیانوس میده، بوی خزه و آب دریا»؛
تازه شما خیلی هم خوش شانسید، همین هفته ی پیش؛ دختری رو درمان کردم که سه تا چشم داشت و یک منقار
اینکه پسرتون نصفش صدفه، تقصیر من نیست؛
برحسب اتفاق متوجه نشدین که ...؛
یه خونه ی کوچیک کنار دریا هست؟؛
زن و مرد نمیدانستند چه اسمی برایش بگذارند
سام صداش زدن؛
یا بعضی وقتها هم بهش میگفتن: «همون چیزی که شبیه صدفه»؛
همه منتظر بودند ولی هیچکس نمیتوانست پیش بینی کند
پسر صدفیِ جوان چه وقت از صدفش بیرون میآید
وقتی یکروز چشم چهارقلوهای تامسن بهش افتاد
بهش گفتند جانور صدفی و زود در رفتند
یک بعد از ظهر بهاری
سام زیر باران ماند
گوشه ای در جنوب غربی سی ویو و مِین
نشست به تماشای آب باران که چرخ میخورد و
میریخت تو جوب.؛
مادرش تو بزرگراه
زده بود بغل
و داشت میکوفت روی داشبورد ماشین
طاقت نداشت
این غم
نا امیدی
و رنج بی انتها را
مادر گفت: آره عزیز دلم، نمیخوام دستت بندازم، ولی یه چیزی بدجور بوی ماهی میده، فکر کنم بوی پسرته
دوست ندارم این رو بگم، ولی بالاخره باید گفت دیگه، تو مشکلات رو میندازی تقصیر پسرمون
مرد مرهمها را امتحان کرد، روغنهایی که
همه چیز را به رنگ قرمز درمیآوردند
معجون و کرمهای مختلف
و شربت سرب را امتحان کرد
درد کشید و همه جایش خارید و لرزید و خون آمد
دکتر اینطور تشخیص داد: «نمیتونم مطمئن باشم، ولی شاید علت مرض، درمانش هم باشه، میگن صدف قدرتت رو زیاد میکنه، شاید خوردن پسرت، تو این قضایا کمکت کنه!»؛
مرد پاورچین آمد، یواشکی، خیس عرق
و بر لب هایش-دروغ محض
؛«پسرم،تو خوشبختی؟ نمیخوام فضولی کنم، ولی تو خواب بهشت نمیبینی؟
هیچ وقت دلت نخواسته بمیری؟»؛
سام دوبار پلک زد
ولی جوابی نداد
پدر به چاقویش دست کشید و کراواتش را شل کرد
وقتی پسرش را بلند میکرد، سام کت پدر را خیس کرد
پدر صدف را برد کنار لبهایش
و سام را قورت داد پایین
پسر را در شنهای ساحل خاک کردند
دعا کردند و اشک ریختند
ساعت سه رسیدند خانه
یک صلیب از چوب شناور خاکستری، نشانه ی قبر پسر صدفی شد
روی شنها نوشته بود
خدا بیامرزدش
خاطره ی پسر صدفی با موجی بلند پاک شد و رفت
در فضای امن خانه
مرد به زنش گفت: «از خدا بچه ای دیگر طلب کنیم»؛
زن زمزمه کرد: «ولی اینبار آرزوی دختر کنیم»؛ تیم برتون
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 11/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 27/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a 1997 poetry book written and illustrated by American film director Timothy Walter Burton.
The poems, which are full of black humor, tell stories of hybrid kids, spontaneous transformers, and women who have babies to win over men.
Some characters of the book would later appear in the Flash series Stainboy, which was created, directed, and written by Burton: Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love, Voodoo Girl, Robot Boy, Staring Girl, The Boy with Nails in His Eyes, The Girl with Many Eyes, Stain Boy, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, Stain Boy's Special Christmas, The Girl Who Turned into a Bed, Roy the Toxic Boy, James, Stick Boy's Festive Season, Brie Boy, Mummy Boy, Junk Girl, The Pin Cushion Queen, Melon head, Sue, Jimmy the Hideous Penguin Boy, Char Boy, Anchor Baby, Oyster Boy Steps Out.
عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «مرگ غم� انگیز پسر صدفی و قصه� های دیگر»؛ «مرگ وحشتناک پسرک صدفی و داستان‌ها� دیگر»؛ اثر: تیم برتون؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز پانزدهم ماه می سال 2009میلادی
عنوان: مرگ غم� انگیز پسر صدفی و قصه� های دیگر؛ اثر: تیم برتون؛ برگردان احسان نوروزی؛ مشخصات نشر تهران، حرفه� هنرمند، 1388، مشخصات ظاهری 127ص، مصور (بخشی رنگی)� 14×19س�.� شابک 9649694331؛ مجموعه داستانهای خیلی کوتاه با سوژه های عجیب معصومیت و وحشت از نویسندگان و کارگردانان ایالات متحده آمریکا؛ - سده 20م
با عنوان: مرگ وحشتناک پسرک صدفی و داستان‌ها� دیگر؛ در سال 1384هجری خورشیدی، توسط نشر زاوش، نیز منتشر شده است
مرگ غمانگی� پسر صدفی، و قصه‌ها� دیگر؛ عنوان کتاب شعر مصوری است، که توسط «تیم برتون (خالق فیلمهای بتمن)»، نگاشته و تصویرگری شد، و نخستین بار در سال 1997میلادی انتشار یافته است؛ کتاب پر از اشعاری با درون‌مای� ی کمدی سیاه است، و داستان موجودات عجیب و غریبی را بیان می‌کند� برخی از شخصیت‌ها� این کتاب، بعدها در مجموعه ی کوتاه انیمیشنی، به کارگردانی «تیم برتون» به کار گرفته شدند؛ «ادوارد دست قیچی»، «عروس مرده»، «کابوس قبل از کریسمس» و «ماهی بزرگ»، نمونه ای از بچه های هولناک، و دوست داشتنی در این کتاب هستند؛ مطرودین تنهایی که میکوشند عشق را بیابند، و به دنیاهای بیرحم ستمکاراشان وابستگی پیدا کنند؛ تصویرسازیهای دوست داشتنی «تیم برتون»، همزمان شادی و تراژدی این موجودات پر امید اما تیره بخت را هویدا و آشکار میسازند
مرگ غم انگیز پسر صدفی (قصه ای از تیم برتون)؛
در تپه های شنی خواستگاری کرد؛
در کنار دریا ازدواج کردند
ماه عسل نه روزه شان در جزیره ی کاپری بود.؛
برای شام غذای خاصی داشتند
خورشت جاافتاده ی نرمتنان با ماهی.؛
وقتی مرد آب خورش را مزه مزه میکرد؛
عروس خانم در دل آرزویی کرد.؛
آن آرزو برآورده شد - بچه به دنیا آمد
یک چنین چیز کوچکی آدمیزاد بود؟
خب، شاید.؛
ده تا انگشت دست، ده تا انگشت پا، دل و روده و قوه ی بینایی.؛
میتوانست بشنود، میتوانست حس کند؛
ولی آیا معمولی بود؟
نه چندان.؛
این تولد غیرطبیعی، این مصیبت، این آفت؛
غم اول و آخر این زن و شوهر بود.؛
زن به دکتر شکایت کرد: «این بچه نمیتونه مال من باشه؛
بوی اقیانوس میده، بوی خزه و آب دریا»؛
تازه شما خیلی هم خوش شانسید، همین هفته ی پیش؛ دختری رو درمان کردم که سه تا چشم داشت و یک منقار
اینکه پسرتون نصفش صدفه، تقصیر من نیست؛
برحسب اتفاق متوجه نشدین که ...؛
یه خونه ی کوچیک کنار دریا هست؟؛
زن و مرد نمیدانستند چه اسمی برایش بگذارند
سام صداش زدن؛
یا بعضی وقتها هم بهش میگفتن: «همون چیزی که شبیه صدفه»؛
همه منتظر بودند ولی هیچکس نمیتوانست پیش بینی کند
پسر صدفیِ جوان چه وقت از صدفش بیرون میآید
وقتی یکروز چشم چهارقلوهای تامسن بهش افتاد
بهش گفتند جانور صدفی و زود در رفتند
یک بعد از ظهر بهاری
سام زیر باران ماند
گوشه ای در جنوب غربی سی ویو و مِین
نشست به تماشای آب باران که چرخ میخورد و
میریخت تو جوب.؛
مادرش تو بزرگراه
زده بود بغل
و داشت میکوفت روی داشبورد ماشین
طاقت نداشت
این غم
نا امیدی
و رنج بی انتها را
مادر گفت: آره عزیز دلم، نمیخوام دستت بندازم، ولی یه چیزی بدجور بوی ماهی میده، فکر کنم بوی پسرته
دوست ندارم این رو بگم، ولی بالاخره باید گفت دیگه، تو مشکلات رو میندازی تقصیر پسرمون
مرد مرهمها را امتحان کرد، روغنهایی که
همه چیز را به رنگ قرمز درمیآوردند
معجون و کرمهای مختلف
و شربت سرب را امتحان کرد
درد کشید و همه جایش خارید و لرزید و خون آمد
دکتر اینطور تشخیص داد: «نمیتونم مطمئن باشم، ولی شاید علت مرض، درمانش هم باشه، میگن صدف قدرتت رو زیاد میکنه، شاید خوردن پسرت، تو این قضایا کمکت کنه!»؛
مرد پاورچین آمد، یواشکی، خیس عرق
و بر لب هایش-دروغ محض
؛«پسرم،تو خوشبختی؟ نمیخوام فضولی کنم، ولی تو خواب بهشت نمیبینی؟
هیچ وقت دلت نخواسته بمیری؟»؛
سام دوبار پلک زد
ولی جوابی نداد
پدر به چاقویش دست کشید و کراواتش را شل کرد
وقتی پسرش را بلند میکرد، سام کت پدر را خیس کرد
پدر صدف را برد کنار لبهایش
و سام را قورت داد پایین
پسر را در شنهای ساحل خاک کردند
دعا کردند و اشک ریختند
ساعت سه رسیدند خانه
یک صلیب از چوب شناور خاکستری، نشانه ی قبر پسر صدفی شد
روی شنها نوشته بود
خدا بیامرزدش
خاطره ی پسر صدفی با موجی بلند پاک شد و رفت
در فضای امن خانه
مرد به زنش گفت: «از خدا بچه ای دیگر طلب کنیم»؛
زن زمزمه کرد: «ولی اینبار آرزوی دختر کنیم»؛ تیم برتون
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 11/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 27/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
November 4, 2013
This is me--a huge Tim Burton fan (or so I thought):
One day, while carelessly browsing the Internets, I came across a book that I had no idea existed. I couldn't believe my eyes and felt especially stupid when realization hit me: I must have been living under a rock in a God-forsaken place, as never before had I heard of this book:
Of course, as soon as I realized that I had to have this book, another realization hit bullseye: remember that God-forsaken place, the one where I lived under a rock? Yes, this book is not available anywhere in Bulgaria. This is where frustration got the better of me...
But I said to myself: "Fear not, Tina, for you have the power of the Internets and the credit card, and have been given upon birth the gift of patience--you shall order this book online from a country where Tim Burton's books actually exist!".
This is me now, loving my book and loving Tim Burton even more:
One day, while carelessly browsing the Internets, I came across a book that I had no idea existed. I couldn't believe my eyes and felt especially stupid when realization hit me: I must have been living under a rock in a God-forsaken place, as never before had I heard of this book:
Of course, as soon as I realized that I had to have this book, another realization hit bullseye: remember that God-forsaken place, the one where I lived under a rock? Yes, this book is not available anywhere in Bulgaria. This is where frustration got the better of me...
But I said to myself: "Fear not, Tina, for you have the power of the Internets and the credit card, and have been given upon birth the gift of patience--you shall order this book online from a country where Tim Burton's books actually exist!".
This is me now, loving my book and loving Tim Burton even more:
March 26, 2025
More responsible than anyone else for ushering goth aesthetic through the mainstream of popular culture’s chamber doors, Tim Burton took a black page out of Edward Gorey’s book for this motley crew of macabre hobbledehoys.
As dreary as they are droll, these tales of strange children with unique afflictions and predispositions are endearing in their grotesque innocence.
The eponymous Oyster Boy’s calamitous circumstances and downright ghastly fate at the shucking hands of his impotent father are depicted with such vivid gloom. His quiet helplessness is heartbreaking.
As dreary as they are droll, these tales of strange children with unique afflictions and predispositions are endearing in their grotesque innocence.
The eponymous Oyster Boy’s calamitous circumstances and downright ghastly fate at the shucking hands of his impotent father are depicted with such vivid gloom. His quiet helplessness is heartbreaking.
August 26, 2024
“Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept.�
~~
I needed to read today. I didn't want to simply read, I NEEDED to read . I felt a need to clear the voices from Mrs. Dalloway from my mind. , was the perfect book to do so.
This is a collection of grim short poems/stories depicting the lives ~~ & misfortunes of a group of sympathetic outcasts as they try to find their place in the world ~~ often with tragic results.
A stick boy finds himself engulfed in flames when he falls in love with the wrong kind of girl, a voodoo doll is cursed to be forever alone because of the pins sticking out from her heart, a depressed melonhead discovers he should be careful with what he wishes for, & Roy, known as ‘toxic boy�, learns he cannot coexist with fresh, clean air.
Angst & a sense of ‘not really belonging here� are a given throughout the poems in an homage to adolescence, & even though the content of some of them is quite dark it is difficult not to empathize with the protagonists.
is macabre, disturbing, funny & heartwarming ~~ all at once.~~ of course it is, it’s . It's the perfect opportunity to visitܰٴDz’sunique & unusual mind, & is not to be missed.
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept.�
~~
I needed to read today. I didn't want to simply read, I NEEDED to read . I felt a need to clear the voices from Mrs. Dalloway from my mind. , was the perfect book to do so.
This is a collection of grim short poems/stories depicting the lives ~~ & misfortunes of a group of sympathetic outcasts as they try to find their place in the world ~~ often with tragic results.
A stick boy finds himself engulfed in flames when he falls in love with the wrong kind of girl, a voodoo doll is cursed to be forever alone because of the pins sticking out from her heart, a depressed melonhead discovers he should be careful with what he wishes for, & Roy, known as ‘toxic boy�, learns he cannot coexist with fresh, clean air.
Angst & a sense of ‘not really belonging here� are a given throughout the poems in an homage to adolescence, & even though the content of some of them is quite dark it is difficult not to empathize with the protagonists.
is macabre, disturbing, funny & heartwarming ~~ all at once.~~ of course it is, it’s . It's the perfect opportunity to visitܰٴDz’sunique & unusual mind, & is not to be missed.
October 12, 2020
I'm a fan of Burton's movies. So I was kind of interested in his writings. It wasn't a big surprise to find out that the level of awesome weirdness was similar. The distinctive Burton mixture of darkness and uncomfortable tenderness.
I mean, he wrote some really odd poems (technically, not that great, and that is a charming plus) but their sweetness and sensibility are touching. Well, most of the times, they're just sad. However, this book is written in a way that seems to be funny, and for some people, it includes some weird poems which made them laugh and that's it. But after a while, its melancholic humor kicks in, and you just feel bad for most of the characters, many of them rather relatable. I wanted to help them, to adopt them and bring them home and have picnics everyday and dance under a rainbow and clean the house while a couple of birds make their beds. Nevertheless, this is the Burton universe. From a certain perspective, it's not that different from the real world.
Besides the poems, Burton also drew some lovely cartoons (hardly appropriate for children). If you're going to read about a boy with nails in his eyes, it's nice to see a detailed picture of it, right?
Same thing with a girl with many eyes.
Imagine the flood she'd cause if you ever make her cry.
There are poems like The Girl Who Turned into a Bed, Sue and Jimmy, the Hideous Penguin Boy which made me smile as my mind repeated "what a piece of rare work this guy is". Others like The Melancholy death of Oyster Boy almost made me cry. Voodoo girl is funny poem with a heartbreaking ending line. Anchor baby, simply tragic. Oh, Melonhead! You have to read this good advice.
Rare and isolated creatures, kids who don't fit normal standards and are rejected by their parents and laughed at by their neighbors, eccentric people with strange problems. This book is about all the weirdos that are far more interesting than the apparently regular, normal people - a girl with only two eyes, for instance.
This collection, beautifully illustrated, is a gem. It's one of those books which seems ostensibly simple but contains complex ideas, forgotten values and relatable feelings.
Oct 26, 13
* Also on .
* Photo credit: Picture from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton.
I mean, he wrote some really odd poems (technically, not that great, and that is a charming plus) but their sweetness and sensibility are touching. Well, most of the times, they're just sad. However, this book is written in a way that seems to be funny, and for some people, it includes some weird poems which made them laugh and that's it. But after a while, its melancholic humor kicks in, and you just feel bad for most of the characters, many of them rather relatable. I wanted to help them, to adopt them and bring them home and have picnics everyday and dance under a rainbow and clean the house while a couple of birds make their beds. Nevertheless, this is the Burton universe. From a certain perspective, it's not that different from the real world.
Besides the poems, Burton also drew some lovely cartoons (hardly appropriate for children). If you're going to read about a boy with nails in his eyes, it's nice to see a detailed picture of it, right?
Same thing with a girl with many eyes.
Imagine the flood she'd cause if you ever make her cry.
There are poems like The Girl Who Turned into a Bed, Sue and Jimmy, the Hideous Penguin Boy which made me smile as my mind repeated "what a piece of rare work this guy is". Others like The Melancholy death of Oyster Boy almost made me cry. Voodoo girl is funny poem with a heartbreaking ending line. Anchor baby, simply tragic. Oh, Melonhead! You have to read this good advice.
Melonhead
There once was a morose melonhead,
who sat there all day
and wished he were dead.
But you should be careful
about the things that you wish.
Because the last thing he heard
was a deafening squish.
Rare and isolated creatures, kids who don't fit normal standards and are rejected by their parents and laughed at by their neighbors, eccentric people with strange problems. This book is about all the weirdos that are far more interesting than the apparently regular, normal people - a girl with only two eyes, for instance.
This collection, beautifully illustrated, is a gem. It's one of those books which seems ostensibly simple but contains complex ideas, forgotten values and relatable feelings.
Oct 26, 13
* Also on .
* Photo credit: Picture from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton.
October 15, 2017
A short collection of macabre poems, illustrated like a children's book, but aimed more at the YA market, and delightful for dark-thinking adults as well.
There are lots of gory things about eyes, stories of non-human children (toxic, half robot, half oyster etc) and a most inappropriate present from Santa.
Occasionally the rhythm doesn't quite work at the first attempt, but even so, it's great fun.
It is strongly reminiscent of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children (my review HERE), but VERY obviously the work of Tim Burton. His wiry, but colour, illustrations, perfectly complement his dark words.
There are lots of gory things about eyes, stories of non-human children (toxic, half robot, half oyster etc) and a most inappropriate present from Santa.
Occasionally the rhythm doesn't quite work at the first attempt, but even so, it's great fun.
It is strongly reminiscent of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children (my review HERE), but VERY obviously the work of Tim Burton. His wiry, but colour, illustrations, perfectly complement his dark words.
March 5, 2014
Reading this tiny tome was sort of like taking a prolonged vacation on The Island of Really, Really Misfit Toys. The natives are strange but friendly. They take some getting used to, but after a while, you'll want to hug them...BUT be careful - many of them have sharp objects sticking out of their bellies.
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes
put up his aluminum tree.
It looked pretty strange
because he couldn't see.
The above is a pretty good example of what's in this book and should tell you whether or not it's for you. Bad things happen to stick figures and little mummy boys. Children get eaten by their parents and a girl turns into a bed.
If you have a fondness for all things misbegotten AND find that fairy tales are not quite disturbing enough, you should have room in your heart for Melonhead and maybe even Jimmy, the Hideous Penguin Boy.
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes
put up his aluminum tree.
It looked pretty strange
because he couldn't see.
The above is a pretty good example of what's in this book and should tell you whether or not it's for you. Bad things happen to stick figures and little mummy boys. Children get eaten by their parents and a girl turns into a bed.
If you have a fondness for all things misbegotten AND find that fairy tales are not quite disturbing enough, you should have room in your heart for Melonhead and maybe even Jimmy, the Hideous Penguin Boy.
February 22, 2021
8.5/10
Damn!!! This is so dark but yet so funny.
Its a collection of very short stories about very strange beings. There are no happy endings at all. You see all of those likeable people ( or matchsticks or whatever ) and you think, aww its sad what happened with them, i bet things will be good in the end.........NO.
Im not proud but i laughed with the most of the stories, is it something wrong with me? should i be worried?
Read this book, i don't know why or how but it will cheer you up
Damn!!! This is so dark but yet so funny.
Its a collection of very short stories about very strange beings. There are no happy endings at all. You see all of those likeable people ( or matchsticks or whatever ) and you think, aww its sad what happened with them, i bet things will be good in the end.........NO.
Im not proud but i laughed with the most of the stories, is it something wrong with me? should i be worried?
Read this book, i don't know why or how but it will cheer you up
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August 22, 202022/8/20
Very peculiar, but also very good and very Burton.
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November 10, 2017
Τι τέλειο μικρούτσικο βιβλιαράκι ήταν αυτό! Γκυκούτσικες και σκοτεινούτσικες ιστοριούλες γραμμένες σε στοίχους με πολύ ωραία διακριτικά, χρωματιστά και ασπρόμαυρα σχεδιάκια, πολύ πολύ ταιριαστά με την ατμόσφαιρα του βιβλίου!!
Πολύ πολύ μου άρεσε!
Πολύ πολύ μου άρεσε!
October 26, 2021
5* σκίτσα
5* έκδοση
3* μετάφραση
5* έκδοση
3* μετάφραση
September 30, 2018
I wonder what it would be like to live inside Tim Burton's head ala Being John Malkovich, such talent, such virile imaginations, to dwell within his noggin for a while, you know? I don't know why but for some reason I have always held Burton's creativity on par with Neil Gaiman's, though their style is very dissimilar, but both have distinct styles, that's almost as important as talent. I feel these little stories about grotesque beauty, and what a beauty it was, were full of metaphors, heavy with symbolism. Too many hidden meanings here to be casual, Burton was trying to tell us something. In so few words and splashes from his mind, he did rather well. I went into this fully expecting weird quirkiness, maybe little bit of creepy Gothicness, but I found most of the stories to be very twisted darkly so, which I end up enjoying anyways. There was a lot of sexual innuendo, more so than in his films, that did surprise me. But I like it when I am surprised.
OK, so let's break it down, shall we? Stick Boy and Match Girl were very sweet but in a Tim Burton fashion. Staring Girl was downright creepy, brrr. Stain Boy and his power were hilarious. OK now, the titular Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, Jesus that was something else, quite an impact. Wow. It was definitely multilayered, with myriad themes and that ending, it's all about the endings, isn't it Rðhisha? It had a good beginning with these words ( he proposed in the dunes, they wed by the sea) and a good, righteous end. Stain Boy again, haha. The Girl Who Turned into a Bed, well! Roy the Toxic Boy, how ironic. James, my personal favorite but made me said Whattt aloud. Mummy Boy was like a twisted WALL-E. But my absolute favorite was the Anchor Baby because mermaids and watery stuff, it was so poignant and it had a proper satisfying finish, it was fair like chaos, this was definitely a social commentary. Junk Girl was very meaningful. All these stories strange but good.
Tim Burton's stories have always been about the lonely hearts, the misfits, about isolation. Those who shun the world and are often rejected by it. Those distorted monsters, my heroes. I think all his work is basically a retelling of Frankenstein's monster and the need to separate from others' reality, about the misunderstood. I feel like he's trying to find a cure for the sickness of being alive and assuage the hysteria of living in this world. I have always cherished his movies, but his vision transcends even here to the written form as well. I feel like I know him a little better for it, after reading this collection.
Is it devious of me to enjoy all this weird craziness and all this misery? But it's so beautiful, she's so beautiful. Do you know you are fake? In the end, all I can say is this. Don't forget the music, don't forget the magic. Don't let utterly Empty People take all that away from you.
Dream. Dream it all. Dream until you fall asleep. Dream till they let you. Even then dream some more, just to spite them, just for the heck of it. There's no Alice's sister here to wake you up. Don't be afraid, be a Dreamer even if there is no Eva Green.
February 7, 2018
خیلی جالب بود. ممنون از بزرگوارانی که معرفی کردن.
شیوه ی کار تیم برتون توی فیلم هاش رو میشه "فانتزی سیاه" نامید. یعنی ایده های فانتزی ای که همراه با وحشت و مرگ هستن. این فانتزی ابداً برای بچه ها نیست. انیمیشن های معروف برتون توی این حال و هوا، کابوس پیش از کریسمس و عروس مرده هستش.
فضای این کتاب، تلفیقی از فانتزی سیاه تیم برتون و طنز شل سیلور استاینه: ترکیب طنز و وحشت.
نتیجه خوب از آب دراومده. هر چند بعضیاشون میتونستن خیلی بهتر باشن.
شیوه ی کار تیم برتون توی فیلم هاش رو میشه "فانتزی سیاه" نامید. یعنی ایده های فانتزی ای که همراه با وحشت و مرگ هستن. این فانتزی ابداً برای بچه ها نیست. انیمیشن های معروف برتون توی این حال و هوا، کابوس پیش از کریسمس و عروس مرده هستش.
فضای این کتاب، تلفیقی از فانتزی سیاه تیم برتون و طنز شل سیلور استاینه: ترکیب طنز و وحشت.
نتیجه خوب از آب دراومده. هر چند بعضیاشون میتونستن خیلی بهتر باشن.
January 7, 2013
از تیم برتونی که این بالا نوشتم میشه حدس زد که این یه کتاب متفاوته.
مجموعه ایه از داستان های خیلی کوتاه با تصویرهای فوق العاده جذاب و سوژه های عجیب غریب!
سوژه های این کتاب اغلب بچه هایی هستن که به نحوی غیر طبیعی هستن و به همین دلیل تنهان و طرد شده ن.
نویسنده با لحن بیخیال و بچگانه چیزایی میگه که در عین خنده دار و مسخره بودن، غم انگیزن. بر خلاف ظاهرش از نظر من این کتاب مناسب بچه ها نیست!
خیلی کتاب ظریف و دوست داشتنی ایه.
مجموعه ایه از داستان های خیلی کوتاه با تصویرهای فوق العاده جذاب و سوژه های عجیب غریب!
سوژه های این کتاب اغلب بچه هایی هستن که به نحوی غیر طبیعی هستن و به همین دلیل تنهان و طرد شده ن.
نویسنده با لحن بیخیال و بچگانه چیزایی میگه که در عین خنده دار و مسخره بودن، غم انگیزن. بر خلاف ظاهرش از نظر من این کتاب مناسب بچه ها نیست!
خیلی کتاب ظریف و دوست داشتنی ایه.
October 3, 2017
Un poemario gótico y con humor al mejor estilo de Tim Burton .!! 🖤
Me duró menos de media hora jajaj pero lo disfruté mucho .!!
Los que más me gustaron fueron :
🖤Chico mancha
🖤La melancólica muerte de chico ostra
🖤La chica vudú
🖤Chico tóxico
🖤Chico momia
🖤Chico ancla
Me duró menos de media hora jajaj pero lo disfruté mucho .!!
Los que más me gustaron fueron :
🖤Chico mancha
🖤La melancólica muerte de chico ostra
🖤La chica vudú
🖤Chico tóxico
🖤Chico momia
🖤Chico ancla
February 20, 2017
De tanto en tanto decido volver a la melancolía que emana este libro, para reconfortarme entre las trágicas historias de cada personaje. Creo que no es ninguna novedad que Tim Burton es una de mis personas favoritas en la vida. Como director, como artista, simplemente amo su percepción del arte, su ojo macabro y el tinte gótico en todo lo que hace. Este libro es una recopilación de poemas al estilo Gorey (que, notablemente, es una de las grandes fuentes de inspiración del director) donde nos encontraremos con muchas criaturas incomprendidas, abandonadas a su suerte, olvidadas por la vida. Se lee en media hora como mucho, realmente son poemas muy sencillos y breves, y está plagado de las ilustraciones de Burton.
Lo interesante de esta edición es que llegando al final se encuentran los mismos poemas pero en su idioma original, cosa que considero super importante para no perder su esencia. Creo que es un libro que todo fan de Tim debe leer, realmente lo disfrutarán mucho, es un pedacito de él grabado en cada página.
Lo interesante de esta edición es que llegando al final se encuentran los mismos poemas pero en su idioma original, cosa que considero super importante para no perder su esencia. Creo que es un libro que todo fan de Tim debe leer, realmente lo disfrutarán mucho, es un pedacito de él grabado en cada página.
January 23, 2020
Half-oyster, half-boy, Oyster Boy is born to a perfectly human couple who supposedly conceived him after dining on “one spectatular dish- / a simmering stew of mollusks and fish.� Growing up, Oyster Boy, whose proper name is Sam but is sometimes called "that thing that looks like a clam," becomes a laughingstock (“When the Thompson quadruplets espied him one day, / they called him a bivalve and ran quickly away.) and a picture of sadness and reticence (“One spring afternoon, / Sam was left in the rain. / At the southwestern corner of Seaview and Main, / he watched the rain water as it swirled / down the drain.�). Meanwhile his parents, unmindful of their offspring’s existential crisis, are having some problems of their own--specifically, problems in bed. Recall the long-standing reputation of oysters as powerful aphrodisiacs and you get a clue as to where Oyster Boy’s story is probably headed. Indeed, the circumstances surrounding the untimely demise of Oyster Boy, one of the many bizarre characters in The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, is nothing if not melancholy.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a collection of poems written by filmmaker Tim Burton. The poems, all 23 of them, are about an unlikely assortment of extraordinary children. Products as they are of the warped imagination of the famous director of Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, and nearly everything else Johnny Depp starred in as an oddball, they are extraordinary not because they possess above-average strength and intelligence but because they have freakish appearances and sorrowful encounters with fate.
A sampling of the titles in this collection yields funny-until-you-realize-they're-not eponymous characters, like The Boy with Nails in His Eyes, The Girl Who Turned Into a Bed, and Melonhead. Mummy Boy, “the result of an old pharoah's curse," and Robot Boy, apparently the consequence of a married woman’s affair with a microwave blender, share with Oyster Boy not only the same gender (obviously) but also the same unenviable feeling of being rejected and neglected, especially by their parents.
The twenty odd characters in this book (Oyster Boy and two other characters appear twice) are children who inspire sympathy not so much for their grotesque abnormalities as for the simple ways they get to accept and cope with them. Often their stories end in tragedy, which is how things turn out for Oyster Boy and Roy, The Toxic Boy, but in some cases these strange fellows appear to think, "To heck with it!" The cape-wearing Stain Boy, who "can't fly around tall buildings, / or outrun a speeding train, / the only talent he seems to have / is to leave a nasty stain," is coolly unconcerned of his "sky-high" dry cleaning bill. The Pin Cushion Queen ("When she sits alone on her throne / pins push through her spleen.") sits alone on her throne anyway.
Aside from composing the lines that narrate their not so kid-friendly stories, Burton also illustrated the plight of Oyster Boy and his miserable company in this collection. Already in the first drawing, of The Nightmare Before Christmas� Jack Skellington lookalike Stick Boy and the endearing yet deathly Match Girl, the clearly mismatched young lovers in the first story, shades of ܰٴDz’s filmography and strokes guided by his fascination with the great Edward Gorey are at mischievous work. His illustrations add to the dark humor of his playful poems as well as to the intrinsic humanity of his characters, freaks and geeks who are actually--if you'll permit the poor rhyme--beautiful creatures in spite of their ugly features.
Now why does that description sound awfully familiar?
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a collection of poems written by filmmaker Tim Burton. The poems, all 23 of them, are about an unlikely assortment of extraordinary children. Products as they are of the warped imagination of the famous director of Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, and nearly everything else Johnny Depp starred in as an oddball, they are extraordinary not because they possess above-average strength and intelligence but because they have freakish appearances and sorrowful encounters with fate.
A sampling of the titles in this collection yields funny-until-you-realize-they're-not eponymous characters, like The Boy with Nails in His Eyes, The Girl Who Turned Into a Bed, and Melonhead. Mummy Boy, “the result of an old pharoah's curse," and Robot Boy, apparently the consequence of a married woman’s affair with a microwave blender, share with Oyster Boy not only the same gender (obviously) but also the same unenviable feeling of being rejected and neglected, especially by their parents.
The twenty odd characters in this book (Oyster Boy and two other characters appear twice) are children who inspire sympathy not so much for their grotesque abnormalities as for the simple ways they get to accept and cope with them. Often their stories end in tragedy, which is how things turn out for Oyster Boy and Roy, The Toxic Boy, but in some cases these strange fellows appear to think, "To heck with it!" The cape-wearing Stain Boy, who "can't fly around tall buildings, / or outrun a speeding train, / the only talent he seems to have / is to leave a nasty stain," is coolly unconcerned of his "sky-high" dry cleaning bill. The Pin Cushion Queen ("When she sits alone on her throne / pins push through her spleen.") sits alone on her throne anyway.
Aside from composing the lines that narrate their not so kid-friendly stories, Burton also illustrated the plight of Oyster Boy and his miserable company in this collection. Already in the first drawing, of The Nightmare Before Christmas� Jack Skellington lookalike Stick Boy and the endearing yet deathly Match Girl, the clearly mismatched young lovers in the first story, shades of ܰٴDz’s filmography and strokes guided by his fascination with the great Edward Gorey are at mischievous work. His illustrations add to the dark humor of his playful poems as well as to the intrinsic humanity of his characters, freaks and geeks who are actually--if you'll permit the poor rhyme--beautiful creatures in spite of their ugly features.
Now why does that description sound awfully familiar?
March 19, 2020
Τον Tim Burton τον θαυμάζω απεριόριστα και λίγο με τρομάζει. Αγαπώ την αλλόκοτη, πρωτότυπη και ανορδόδοξη ματιά του στην πραγματικότητα και την τρυφερότητα με την οποία αγκαλιάζει τη διαφορετικότητα. Η ευαισθησία που επιδεικνύει στους υπέροχους "παρείσακτους", στους περιθωριακούς της κοινωνίας, ποτέ δεν παύει να με συγκινεί, από τον Ψαλιδοχέρη μέχρι σήμερα.
Εδώ έχουμε άλλο ένα δείγμα του ιδιοφυούς μυαλού του, όπου με πολύ χιούμορ, το γνώριμο γοτθικό του στυλ και το σκοτεινό δημιουργικό του πρίσμα, μας παρουσιάζει σύντομες έμμετρες ιστορίες για παιδιά με την αντίστοιχη εικονογράφηση. Δε χρειάζονται λόγια, δώστε του μία ευκαιρία.
Εδώ έχουμε άλλο ένα δείγμα του ιδιοφυούς μυαλού του, όπου με πολύ χιούμορ, το γνώριμο γοτθικό του στυλ και το σκοτεινό δημιουργικό του πρίσμα, μας παρουσιάζει σύντομες έμμετρες ιστορίες για παιδιά με την αντίστοιχη εικονογράφηση. Δε χρειάζονται λόγια, δώστε του μία ευκαιρία.
June 9, 2017
دوتا چیز مهم فقط:
کاغذ خیلی زیادی حیف شده
و خوندنش به فارسی لطفی نداره
حالا کلا متنشم عجیب غریب و غیردوست‌داشتن� بود برام. اما به انگلیسیش حداقل باعث میشد از شعر بودنش لذت ببرم
کلا نمیدونم چرا توقعم از این کتاب انقدر بالا بود
کاغذ خیلی زیادی حیف شده
و خوندنش به فارسی لطفی نداره
حالا کلا متنشم عجیب غریب و غیردوست‌داشتن� بود برام. اما به انگلیسیش حداقل باعث میشد از شعر بودنش لذت ببرم
کلا نمیدونم چرا توقعم از این کتاب انقدر بالا بود
May 10, 2019
Fun fact about me I'm OBSESSED with Tim Burton's work. I'm totally in love with Jack Skellington mostly but all of Tim Burton's work just makes me extremely happy. So it's no surprise this book was a must have on my shelf and in my life. I absolutely loved it!
December 8, 2020
This is a bit of melancholy fun from Tim Burton, who I adore. I love his skewed view of the world and how he can take the scary or off-putting and make it interesting or even adorable. I love the illustrations that bring his poems and little stories to life.
March 18, 2015
خیلی خوب بود, خیلی
داستان-شعر های این کتاب دقیقا توی همون فضای انیمیشن عروس مرده یا کابوس قبل از کریسمس بودند
اگر طرفدار کارهای تیم برتون هستید حتما بخونیدش
اینم تصویر بعضی از شخصیتهای این کتاب:)
داستان-شعر های این کتاب دقیقا توی همون فضای انیمیشن عروس مرده یا کابوس قبل از کریسمس بودند
اگر طرفدار کارهای تیم برتون هستید حتما بخونیدش
اینم تصویر بعضی از شخصیتهای این کتاب:)
August 4, 2018
The melancholy death of the oyster boy was the creepiest one for me I think.
Very short, very weird.
Tim Burton I think has such a vast imagination which I thoroughly enjoy
Although I’m not sure if he’s trying to tell us all that having a child to save a relationship will be the ruin of you?
Interesting
Very short, very weird.
Tim Burton I think has such a vast imagination which I thoroughly enjoy
Although I’m not sure if he’s trying to tell us all that having a child to save a relationship will be the ruin of you?
Interesting
July 8, 2015
Siniestro, gótico, oscuro. Un libro de Tim Burton no podría no ser así. Es una seguidilla de historias tristes y obviamente tétricas. Me gustó.
October 14, 2019
Maravilloso! Es oscuro, satírico, tierno y melancólico, lo disfruté muchísimo!
June 11, 2020
Tim Burton's artwork is often described as Goofy Gothic. Simple, surreal, and fantastically strange. I've always been a huge fan of Tim Burton's work in the past, (and ever since I was a kid.) So you can probably imagine how excited I was, to find out about the existence of this book. I recently got the chance to read it, and I'm happy to say that I wasn't disappointed. The poetry was bizarre and minimalistic, and the artwork simple and odd. (Each had that trademark Tim Burton style) that I loved.
I appreciated how it stayed fun and quick to read, and didn't necessarily have to be extremely complex, or wordy. (And some of the poems, were even pretty profound in thier simplicity, depending on how you viewed them.)
Examples like; Voodoo girl, Anchor baby, Mummy boy, and Junk girl. Etc.
~Personal favorites/ones that stuck out to me~
-Mummy boy
-Anchor baby
-Voodoo girl
-James
-Junk girl
-Melonhead (aka me.)
-And Staring girl, (which fun fact: would later be the inspiration for the "Weird girl" character in Frankenweenie.)
Overall it was a short, entertaining and slightly gruesome, read.
4.5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I appreciated how it stayed fun and quick to read, and didn't necessarily have to be extremely complex, or wordy. (And some of the poems, were even pretty profound in thier simplicity, depending on how you viewed them.)
Examples like; Voodoo girl, Anchor baby, Mummy boy, and Junk girl. Etc.
~Personal favorites/ones that stuck out to me~
-Mummy boy
-Anchor baby
-Voodoo girl
-James
-Junk girl
-Melonhead (aka me.)
-And Staring girl, (which fun fact: would later be the inspiration for the "Weird girl" character in Frankenweenie.)
Overall it was a short, entertaining and slightly gruesome, read.
4.5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
August 31, 2019
I can't believe how old this book is already, stumbled across it whilst looking in a box in the loft.
If you are a fan of Tim Burton's a nightmare before Christmas and corpse bride then you'll love this book. The illustrations are stunning and really freaky, the poems themselves are pretty messed up. There are a lot about kids and babies and couples trying for a baby, the results of which don't end well. The titles are genius, examples; Jimmy, the hideous penguin boy and the boy with nails in his eyes. It's an odd mind that managed to come up with these.
Blog review:
If you are a fan of Tim Burton's a nightmare before Christmas and corpse bride then you'll love this book. The illustrations are stunning and really freaky, the poems themselves are pretty messed up. There are a lot about kids and babies and couples trying for a baby, the results of which don't end well. The titles are genius, examples; Jimmy, the hideous penguin boy and the boy with nails in his eyes. It's an odd mind that managed to come up with these.
Blog review:
August 1, 2024
این کتاب،توسط تیم برتون شاعر،نویسنده،کارگردان و نقاش امریکایی نوشته و تصویرگری شده است.یکی از ویژگی‌ها� سبک سورئال وجود تصاویر در میان نوشته‌هاس�.کتاب مملو از اشعاری با درون‌مایه� کمدی سیاه و موجوداتی عجیب و غریب است.تیم برتون سازنده� فیلمهای� مانند ادوارد دست‌قیچی،بتمن،عرو� مرده،آلیس در سرزمین عجایب و ... است.این کتاب در سال۱۹۹۷ منتشر شده. او گاها در فیلمهای� از این شخصیت‌ه� استفاده کرده است.برای لذت بردن از کتاب باید به این سبک علاقه‌من� باشید😊😇
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January 6, 2016
This is a collection of very very short stories which are all written in verse and have an accompanying illustration or illustrations. This whole book was written and illustrated by Tim Burton who is one of my favourite artists and I was very intrigued when I stumbled across this on Amazon. It's a very small book but it's a brilliant one and I have to say that it was better than I thought it would be.
This collection showcases some of Burton's weird character ideas and stories and whilst some stories (such as the Oyster Boy one) span a couple of pages in wonderful verse and with a sad and woeful tale, others are purely a line or two with the illustration to make you think and wonder. None of these stories were cheery, they all have a melancholy sadness or loneliness about them and each of the peculiar creations are misunderstood and isolated. However, the stories are wonderful and funny and entertaining to read and the illustrations just make this book a wonderful one to add to your collection.
Although this looks like a children's book in design (verse + pictures usually = kids book) it's certainly got some more disturbing characters and the stories are all somewhat tragic and chaotic. I wouldn't, therefore, recommend this as a book to give to or read to kids, but I would say that the ironic beauty of these stories is certainly worth a go and I loved reading through this book.
I also feel like this book has great re-readability to it and I have no doubt that I will pick this up again someday to re-read and re-experience these sad little tales. Highly recommended!
This collection showcases some of Burton's weird character ideas and stories and whilst some stories (such as the Oyster Boy one) span a couple of pages in wonderful verse and with a sad and woeful tale, others are purely a line or two with the illustration to make you think and wonder. None of these stories were cheery, they all have a melancholy sadness or loneliness about them and each of the peculiar creations are misunderstood and isolated. However, the stories are wonderful and funny and entertaining to read and the illustrations just make this book a wonderful one to add to your collection.
Although this looks like a children's book in design (verse + pictures usually = kids book) it's certainly got some more disturbing characters and the stories are all somewhat tragic and chaotic. I wouldn't, therefore, recommend this as a book to give to or read to kids, but I would say that the ironic beauty of these stories is certainly worth a go and I loved reading through this book.
I also feel like this book has great re-readability to it and I have no doubt that I will pick this up again someday to re-read and re-experience these sad little tales. Highly recommended!
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